Mobile is Great for Business

But is it really that great for your personal life? A survey recently completed by mobile services provider iPass indicates that the benefits are not as evenly spread as one might think.
They surveyed over 3700 people from 1000 companies and discovered some truly phenomenal changes in behaviour that are great for businesses in terms of competitive advantage, but maybe not so good for their employees.

More than half surveyed wake up during the night to check their phones, not to mention they work 240 more hours. The article doesn't say what the comparison is made to, but who cares, that's a lot more time working and a lot less doing, well, anything else.

Being available 24/7 was supposed to be a mutually beneficial arrangement. Business had access to you day and night but your increased productivity meant more time to do the things you wanted to. Increased friction with your significant other, working more hours and losing sleep was not part of the deal.

We're not saying get rid of your device because thats just crazy talk, but if this is any indication of how things are going to be it's clear we need to start imposing some sort of self control or we'll all gonna be single, burned out and very, very tired. Read the full article on Cnet.